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Medicare financial outlook improves, but problems still loom
WASHINGTON — The federal government projected Friday that Medicare's main trust fund would not run in the red until 2026, two years later than projected last year, in part because of slower growth in healthcare costs. Prospects for the Social...Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Kathleen Sebelius, Career and Workplace, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Parties and Movements
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Trust Fund Plan Helps Workers To Retire
The Hartford CourantWe've got a retirement crisis on our hands, and it isn't going away anytime soon. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute annual survey, workers are increasingly postponing their retirements, hoping they can manage to squeeze a few more...Tags: Retirement, Interior Policy, Politics, Pension and Welfare, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Baltimore police officer charged in drug corruption case
A Baltimore police officer accepted cash payments and provided protection for a man she believed to be a drug dealer — a man who was actually working with department investigators and FBI agents to build a criminal case against her, authorities...
Tags: Anthony W. Batts, Trials, Laws, Drug Trafficking, Rod J. Rosenstein
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Expand, not reduce, Social Security benefits
Millions of senior citizens live under the poverty level. Although their financial situation is dire, according to the federal government, they are not poor. It is shocking to learn that Social Security benefits were formulated more than 40 years ago,...Tags: Consumer Confidence
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'Chained index' for Social Security will hurt seniors
Our federal government, in a misguided effort to shore up Social Security, continues to support switching to the "chained" index which will result in recipients getting almost 3 percent less in their monthly checks in 2014 and more than 8 percent less...Tags: Credit and Debt, Whitehall
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Debating just how long to wait before fixing Social Security
The trustees overseeing the finances of Social Security and Medicare issued their latest report Friday, declaring that a) the Social Security Trust Fund is expected to run out of money in 2035, the same estimate as last year; b) Medicare's hospital...
Tags: Health Insurance, Productivity, Career and Workplace, Credit Ratings, Health Insurance Cost
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Medicare outlook improves as healthcare costs grow more slowly
WASHINGTON — In another indication of the impact of slowing healthcare costs, the federal government Friday upgraded its assessment of the financial health of the Medicare insurance program for the elderly and disabled. Medicare’s main trust...Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Kathleen Sebelius, Parties and Movements, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan
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Voice of the People, Jun. 07
Fresh leadership Unlike state House Speaker Michael Madigan, state Senate President John Cullerton and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, I have read your editorials on the dire financial situation in the state of Illinois caused by the pension situation. The...Tags: Bradley Manning, Trials, Health Insurance, Public Officials, Michele Bachmann
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Voice of the People, Jun. 08
A lesson for the graduate I am guilty of being an ungrateful grade-school graduate who had a lot to learn. At the time, I felt jealous of the enormous, fancy bouquets for my classmates at Hawthorne Scholastic Academy in Chicago with different colored...Tags: Graduation, Chicago Tribune, Colleges and Universities
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Identifying a danger in immigration reform
If immigration reform passes, life will get tougher for foreigners who want to come here illegally. Those trying to sneak in will face more agents, fences and drones. Those who slip through will find it harder to get work — thanks to a mandatory...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, U.S. Senate, Personal Data Collection, Career and Workplace, Interior Policy
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LETTER: Illegal Immigration Bad For Country
With the state recently adopting drivers licenses for "undocumented" immigrants and rallies calling for immigration reform, the media is full of immigration stories. Many of them leave out the word "illegal." The immigration issue is not about legal...Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Personal Data Collection, Illegal Immigrants, Migration
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Colorado governor signs law to compensate exonerated convicts
Colorado became the latest state to pass a law that compensates the wrongfully convicted for their time behind bars. Gov. John Hickenlooper signed the bill Wednesday in Denver, accompanied by exonerated convict Robert Dewey, who had fought for its...Tags: John Hickenlooper, Prisons, Politics, Lifestyle and Leisure, Government
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May 30, 2013
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May 30, 2013
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May 31, 2013
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Jun 7, 2013
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Jun 8, 2013
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Jun 6, 2013
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Jun 5, 2013
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Jun 5, 2013
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